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    Phelps' eight steps to greatness
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        US swimming star Michael Phelps has broken Mark Spitz's 36-year-old record of seven gold medals in a single Olympic Games.
      
    
      
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        Video - Golden Phelps smashes record
      
    
      
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         Sunday 10 August
      
    
      
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         GOLD - Phelps shaves more than a second off his own record to claim his first gold of the Beijing Games.
      
    
      
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        4:03.84s (New world record)
      
    
      
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        Video - Phelps seals second gold in relay
      
    
      
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         Monday 11 August
      
    
      
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         GOLD - Phelps and team-mates regain the title and set a new world record, staging a marvellous comeback in the closest of races.
      
    
      
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        3:08.24s (New world record)
      
    
      
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         Tuesday 12 August
      
    
      
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        GOLD - Phelps finished nearly two seconds clear of his nearest rival, South Korea's Park Tae-hwan.
      
    
      
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         1:42.96 (New world record)
      
    
      
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         Wednesday 13 August
      
    
      
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         GOLD - Phelps breaks the world record to claim a landmark 10th Olympic gold medal.
      
    
      
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         1:52.03 (New world record)
      
    
      
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         GOLD - Phelps and team-mates go under seven minutes for the first time in relay history to cruise to victory.
      
    
      
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         6:58.56 (New world record)
      
    
      
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         GOLD - Phelps dominates from start to finish, winning by more than two seconds in another world record time
      
    
      
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         GOLD - In his most dramatic final yet Phelps is well down at the turn, but somehow fights his way back to beat Serbia's Milorad Cavic by just a hundredth of a second.
      
    
      
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         50.58 (Olympic record)
      
    
      
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         GOLD - At halfway the result is in doubt, but storming legs from Phelps and team mate Jason Lezak hand victory to the US, and a place in history to Michael Phelps
      
    
      
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        3:29.34 (US team world record)
      
    
      
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